Thursday, April 26, 2012

Difference between laptop and desktop video cards?

I have a Ati Mobility Radeon 3650 vRam 512mb DDR3. (This is a laptop video card)

How much better/worse is that from an ATI X1800 or Nvidia Geforce 7800 (Desktop Video Cards). I understand video cards pretty well, but I don't exactly know how to judge between desktop and laptop video cards.

The reason I am asking this is because I am wondering how well I can play COD4. I have a Sony Vaio FW:

http://www.sonystyle.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?catalogId=10551&storeId=10151&langId=-1&productId=8198552921665507465|||The ATI Mobility Radeon 3650 supports DirectX10 and the ATI X1800 and the GeForce 7800 only support DirectX 9.0c. However the Mobility Radeon 3650 is not that great because laptop cards are made to consume little power, thus offering a lot less graphical power. Also many laptop cards suffer from incompatibilities with certain games.|||They're all different cards. If you compare apples to apples - say nVidia 8800GTS and nVidia 8800M, there are some small differences, mainly to reduce power consumption.|||Most laptop video devices are integrated into the motherboards, whereas desktop cards can be upgraded

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